“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.”

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

All girls are beautiful in their own way.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Woman is the light of God.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

Tears were for the weaker days, I’m stronger now.